About Angela

A Note from the Midwife

My name is Angela Hartley and I’m a Licensed Midwife practicing in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. I offer home birth and birth center services since 2017. My background is in cultural anthropology and social/environmental activism. My passions include personal and collective healing.

I’ve been attending births for over a decade. First, as a doula for family and friends, then professionally. From there, I was very fortunate to train with local home birth midwives through apprenticeship.

I graduated from the National Midwifery Institute in 2016. I am licensed through the Medical Board of California and certified through the North American Registry of Midwives. I participate in continuing education and am blessed to attend numerous families a year on their journeys.

I care deeply about a number of things, which is why I do the work I do. I find it meaningful to support the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of pregnant people, babies and their families. I prioritize listening to my clients and what is important to them. I trust the wisdom of the human body and physiologic birth. I am motivated to help facilitate healthy, secure attachment of infants to their people. I love the reparative experiences adults can have through the thoughtful choices made in creating their own families.

Individualized, compassionate care is important to me. Care that is responsive to one’s culture and life history, honors diversity in gender, sexuality and family structure. I practice trauma informed care and am big on consent. I do my best to safeguard my clients’ preferences, wishes and bodily autonomy. I hold my very personal work with families in a larger intention to assist in intergenerational healing and to help create positive change on earth.